Facts about Voltaire

Summary

Biography

Voltaire was a prolific writer and wrote works in nearly every literary form and genres, including plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was outspoken advocate of social reforms, despite the censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke the law. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently used his writings and books to criticize the Catholic Church dogma and the French institutions of his time. He was a leading representative of Deism, a thinking that claimed that there is a God who created everything, but do not rule the world.

Voltaire was one of several famous writers during the Enlightenment, together with the Charles Montesquieu, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who influenced other significant thinkers who in turn had influence on both the French as the American Revolution.

Zodiac etc.

He is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 131 quotes who is written / told by Voltaire, under the main topics: Motivational, Age, Birthday, Faith, Intelligence.

"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work"

"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it"